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Your comic got me to look up to see if the old joke was real or not. Apparently not really. There is a space pen, but it wasn’t developed by NASA nor on their dime. Both Americans and Russians started off with the pencil, but both later adopted the “space pen” since it was more reliable.

The American Space Pen was created by a private company and donated to NASA astronauts. 50 years later, the company is still selling them to the public. I have one, and its the best pen ever made. Seriously, smooth as silk to write with.

NASA did not develop said pen. It was developed by private business, and even Roscosmos buys these pens (they were using special sort of pencils before).

Laika was killed because of overheating, but it wasn’t planned to get bitch back on Earth.

Roscosmos has a lot of different space technologies some of which are arguably superiour to NASA’s. Just take space toilet example. Both toilets on ISS are produced by Russia. Well, even Gagarin had some facilities in his capsule, and unlike Alan Shepard who pissed like a baby before launch Gagarin used them (probably because he was interested to try it, before launch following old pilots tradition he had wet the bus wheel since rocket has no wheels).